COSMOS
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Dictionary entry overview: What does cosmos mean?
• COSMOS (noun)
The noun COSMOS has 2 senses:
1. everything that exists anywhere
2. any of various mostly Mexican herbs of the genus Cosmos having radiate heads of variously colored flowers and pinnate leaves; popular fall-blooming annuals
Familiarity information: COSMOS used as a noun is rare.
Dictionary entry details
• COSMOS (noun)
Meaning:
Everything that exists anywhere
Classified under:
Nouns denoting natural objects (not man-made)
Synonyms:
cosmos; macrocosm; universe; world; existence; creation
Context examples:
they study the evolution of the universe / the biggest tree in existence
Hypernyms ("cosmos" is a kind of...):
natural object (an object occurring naturally; not made by man)
Meronyms (parts of "cosmos"):
celestial body; heavenly body (natural objects visible in the sky)
estraterrestrial body; extraterrestrial object (a natural object existing outside the earth and outside the earth's atmosphere)
Meronyms (members of "cosmos"):
extragalactic nebula; galaxy ((astronomy) a collection of star systems; any of the billions of systems each having many stars and nebulae and dust)
Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "cosmos"):
closed universe ((cosmology) a universe in which there is sufficient matter to halt the expansion that began with the big bang and to cause the universe to collapse again; the visible matter is only 10 percent of the matter required for closure but there may be large amounts of dark matter)
natural order (the physical universe considered as an orderly system subject to natural (not human or supernatural) laws)
nature (the natural physical world including plants and animals and landscapes etc.)
Meaning:
Any of various mostly Mexican herbs of the genus Cosmos having radiate heads of variously colored flowers and pinnate leaves; popular fall-blooming annuals
Classified under:
Nouns denoting plants
Synonyms:
cosmea; cosmos
Hypernyms ("cosmos" is a kind of...):
flower (a plant cultivated for its blooms or blossoms)
Holonyms ("cosmos" is a member of...):
genus Cosmos (genus of tropical American plants cultivated for their colorful flowers)
